Dickerman & Company Records, 1887-1945

Title:

Dickerman & Company Records, 1887-1945

Creator:

Dickerman & Company
Dickerman-Woodworth Company
Woodworth & Company

Accession / Call Number:

1994.009

Object ID:

1994.009

Date:

1887-1945

Physical Description:

18 boxes, 47 bound volumes, and 1 oversized folder ; 15 linear feet

Scope and Content:

The Dickerman & Company records are of two wholesale grocery businesses located in Concord, New Hampshire, that merged around 1930: Dickerman & Company, and Woodworth & Company. There are 47 bound volumes of various kinds: check registers, inventories, debit/credit ledgers, receipts for items sold and purchased. In addition, there are 18 boxes of loose records consisting of auditors reports and pages from order books. The records of the businesses vary over time and in completeness; there is no full run of any one kind of record. The order books reflect the food rationing during World War II (it began in 1942, but different foods were added over the course of the following months), with some pages listing the rationed items purchased. There is no correspondence and no information about the founding of the companies, their merger, or the demise of the surviving Dickerman & Company. Personal information about founders, employees or officers is not present. There are no photographs.

Subjects:

Account books , Business records , Businessmen , Grocers , Grocery trade , Rationing , World War, 1939-1945

Locations:

Concord, NH

People:

Dickerman, George O., 1847-1904 , Dickerman, Edith Gertrude, 1872-1930 , Woodworth, Albert B., 1850-1908 , Woodworth, Edward B., 1847-1901 , Woodworth, Edward K., 1876-1938

Organizations:

Dickerman & Company
Dickerman-Woodworth Company
Woodworth & Company

Credit Line:

New Hampshire Historical Society collection.

Restrictions:

Available for research.

Level Description:

Collection

Finding Aid Link:

RS62608_Dickerman_and_Company_Records_1994.009.pdf